ScummVM in Debian

[Gerfried Fuchs]

	Hello there, too!

* Max Horn <fingolfin at scummvm.org> [2010-05-20 13:21:16 CEST]:
> my name is Max Horn, I am one of the project leads for ScummVM. I am
> contacting you because you seem to be the current maintainer(s) of the
> Debian scummvm package. I have some questions and remarks on that:

 My name is Gerfried Fuchs, I'm one of the people in the pkg-games team. :)
Thanks for contacting us - having a working communication channel with
our upstream developers is absolutely in our interest.

> * We currently have David Weinehall listed as our official Debian
> contact point; but as I recently discovered, this is not quite current
> anymore, and apparently wasn't so for some years. As I understand it,
> now the group of developers joined under
> <pkg-games-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org> is maintaining the package.
> Correct? I would like to update our credits file to correctly reflect
> this (by either updating or remove the entry for "Debian package"). 

 Yes, technically everyone in the team is able to look after the
package. When taking a look at the actual changelog of the package you
can see who does the most work on the package though, which is Moritz:
<http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/scummvm/current/changelog>

> * We recently were made aware that you had enabled the SCI engine in
> your package when ScummVM 1.1.0 was released. It's good that you
> re-disabled it in the 1.1.1 package (after one of our team members
> noticed this and requested the change). This unilateral change was
> quite unfortunate from our point of view, as we very deliberately
> disabled the SCI engine for this release.

 Thanks for letting us known - it was enabled on a user request basis as
can be read in <http://bugs.debian.org/576268>.

> So, let me encourage you and invite you to forward bug reports (if
> they are not Debian specific), discuss troubles ScummVM causes you,
> and changes you would like to see on our side.

 Actually, this is even easier for you through our package tracking
service - you can request receiving all bug mails through it! Just go to
<http://packages.qa.debian.org/scummvm> and find the subscribe box in
the lower left corner of the page. I would suggest you to choose the
"opts" drop-down entry where you can select specific parts that you want
to get notified about, the first checkbox on the following page labelled
"bts" is the relevant one. Of course you are invited to consider the
other keywords, too. :)

> * I noticed on <http://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/scummvm>
> that you still have builddepends on texlive and ghostscript. We used
> to ship some TeX code for documentation, but that was removed some
> years ago. Hence you may wish to remove that builddepends for your own
> convenience.

 Again thanks for having an eye for details - it's indeed appreciated
and will hopefully reduce the required build time of the package because
it wouldn't need to install unneeded build-depends anymore. :)

> Thank your for packaging ScummVM and for listening,

 No, thank _you_ for coding ScummVM and giving us much fun through it. :)
Rhonda